From Stray Dog to World War I Hero Patches This is a book about

This is a book about the unsung heroes

McMeekin also brilliantly reconceives our inherited Anglo-French understanding of the war’s outcome and the collapse of the empire that followed

by Louisa Thomas

Blacks responded by fighting back with an intensity and determination never seen before

in campaigns of limited value to the overall war effort

From Stray Dog to World War I Hero Patches This is a book aboutDescription by Grant Hayter Menzies Hardcover On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unwanted street mutt, Rags became the mascot to the entire First Division of the American Expeditionary Force and a friend to the American troops who had crossed the Atlantic to fight. Rags was more than a scruffy face and a wagging tail, however. The little